The rare jewel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…The rare jevvel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…

So it is just for all the world in the souls of m•n, it may be there is some affliction upon them that I compare to the wound▪ now they think that the greatness of the affliction is that that makes their condition most miserable, Oh no, there is a fretting humour, an inflammation in the heart, a murmuring spirit that is within thee and that is the misery of thy condition, and that must be purged out of thee before thou canst be healed▪ and let God do with thee what •e will, till he purges out that fretting humour thy wound will not be healed, a murmuring heart is a very sinful heart, so that when thou art troubled for such an affliction thou hadst need turn thy thoughts rather to be troubled for the murmuring of thy heart, for that's the greatest trouble, there is an affliction upon thee and that is grievous, but there is a murmuring heart within & that's more grievous. Oh that we could but convince men & women that a murmuring spirit is a greater evil then any affliction, let the affliction be what i• will be. We shall show more afterward that a murmuring spirit is the evil of the evil▪ and the misery of the misery.

So it is just for all the world in the souls of m•n, it may be there is some affliction upon them that I compare to the wound▪ now they think that the greatnesse of the affliction is that that makes their condition most miserable, Oh no, there is a freting humour, an inflamation in the heart, a murmuring spirit that is within thee and that is the miserie of thy condition, and that must be purged out of thee before thou canst be heald▪ and let God doe with thee what •e will, till he purges out that freting humour thy wound will not be healed, a murmuring heart is a very sinful heart, so that when thou art troubled for such an affliction thou hadst need turne thy thoughts rather to be troubled for the murmuring of thy heart, for that's the greatest trouble, there is an affliction upon thee and that is greivous, but there is a murmuring heart within & that's more greivous. Oh that we could but convince men & women that a murmuring spirit is a greater evill then any affliction, let the affliction be what i will be. We shall shew more afterward that a murmuring spirit is the evill of the evill and the misery of the misery.